Frank Ocean, ChatGPT, & The Non-Effort Eating Music Alive
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories (including this one) now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport for new stories and updates. Thanks for reading 💽 What’s a no-show to a superfan? Back in high school, during the Bitcoin-for-acid-tabs era, when credit card kids shelled out funds for rare digital DragonVale eggs and future superstars took their first swings on DatPiff dot com, no one could escape the tryhard allegations. They might strike through the snarled whisper of a desk ...
Frank Ocean, ChatGPT, & The Non-Effort Eating Music Alive
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories (including this one) now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport for new stories and updates. Thanks for reading 💽 What’s a no-show to a superfan? Back in high school, during the Bitcoin-for-acid-tabs era, when credit card kids shelled out funds for rare digital DragonVale eggs and future superstars took their first swings on DatPiff dot com, no one could escape the tryhard allegations. They might strike through the snarled whisper of a desk ...
Anti-Scale: Music Discovery for the 10%
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories (including this one) now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport for new stories and updates. Thanks for reading 💽 We stood like Tetris blocks around the oud. 80+ of us, panini’d up, crunched into a prayer circle by the adorned walls of a collectively owned East London hideaway. No one seemed bothered by their personal space bubbles popping upon entry. As if an elusive magic revealed itself in moments of shared air, tight quarters, autoimmune...
Anti-Scale: Music Discovery for the 10%
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories (including this one) now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport for new stories and updates. Thanks for reading 💽 We stood like Tetris blocks around the oud. 80+ of us, panini’d up, crunched into a prayer circle by the adorned walls of a collectively owned East London hideaway. No one seemed bothered by their personal space bubbles popping upon entry. As if an elusive magic revealed itself in moments of shared air, tight quarters, autoimmune...
Liner Notes 05: Raincheck Music's Rat Race
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport there for new stories and updates. To sign up for our newsletter, add your email here. Thanks for reading 💽 Sampha started his artist path an intern. Before transfixing us with his immortal voice, before the collaborations with Drake and Kendrick and Solange and Frank, he was making tea at the record label he'd one day sign to. Sampha released his debut album eight years later. Much of the time...
Liner Notes 05: Raincheck Music's Rat Race
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport there for new stories and updates. To sign up for our newsletter, add your email here. Thanks for reading 💽 Sampha started his artist path an intern. Before transfixing us with his immortal voice, before the collaborations with Drake and Kendrick and Solange and Frank, he was making tea at the record label he'd one day sign to. Sampha released his debut album eight years later. Much of the time...
Liner Notes 04: Are Rabbit Holes Shallowing Out?
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport there for new stories and updates. To sign up for our newsletter, add your email here. Thanks for reading 💽 We're 16.6% of the way through 2023, everybody. Life's BPM: 9,000+ Last time you heard from us, we celebrated the new year with 50 hidden gems to soundtrack the coming months — a spellbinding, globetrotting group of records in search of their 1st collector. (Listen while you read.) W...
Liner Notes 04: Are Rabbit Holes Shallowing Out?
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport there for new stories and updates. To sign up for our newsletter, add your email here. Thanks for reading 💽 We're 16.6% of the way through 2023, everybody. Life's BPM: 9,000+ Last time you heard from us, we celebrated the new year with 50 hidden gems to soundtrack the coming months — a spellbinding, globetrotting group of records in search of their 1st collector. (Listen while you read.) W...
His Name is Heno. His Singular Music Is Taking Aim at the American Prison System
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories (including this one) now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport for new stories and updates. Thanks for reading 💽 Heno. is donating 5% of all his 2023 Web3 releases to organizations fighting against the carceral state and recidivism. Learn more about The Bail Project, Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform, and Baltimore Action Legal Team here. TW: This article features recurring themes of death and incarceration. Label execs can’t compete wit...
His Name is Heno. His Singular Music Is Taking Aim at the American Prison System
Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories (including this one) now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport for new stories and updates. Thanks for reading 💽 Heno. is donating 5% of all his 2023 Web3 releases to organizations fighting against the carceral state and recidivism. Learn more about The Bail Project, Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform, and Baltimore Action Legal Team here. TW: This article features recurring themes of death and incarceration. Label execs can’t compete wit...
